Bug#805481: One important omission

[Steven Capper]

On 18 November 2015 at 17:20, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Am 18.11.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Steven Capper:
> > I neglected to mention that this running under a QEMU virtual machine
> (same
> > error for both KVM acceleration on and off).
> >
> > I will dig into this a little bit here and will update if I find
> anything.
>
> Can you pinpoint the version when this started failing?
> As a start you could pull the snapshots from [1]
>
> To make debugging easier, you can keep the old sysvinit binary around
> (assuming you have a working /etc/inittab). This way you can easily boot
> into the system via the grub menu.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>

Thanks Michael,
I didn't know about snapshots.

I pulled down:
libsystemd0 226-4
systemd 226-4

That was then sufficient to boot the machine without issue.

Upgrading to 227-1 caused immediate segfaults and led to the same
unbootable machine.

So it looks like something introduced 227-1.

Cheers,
--
Steve


>
>
> [1] http://snapshot.debian.org/
> --
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> universe are pointed away from Earth?
>
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